1847, Cazin, Traité des plantes médicinales indigènes.

Condition : good, some rubbing, boards and endpapers with signs of moisture, minor scattered foxing. A good copy.
Volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : contemporary half leather.
Format : In-8.
Pages : 2 ff, XI, 661 pp, 1 f.
Publisher : Boulogne, by the author and Paris, Labé.
Date : 1850.

First edition.

François-Joseph Cazin, born on March 4, 1788 in Samer and died on June 27, 1864 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, was a French physician. Author of the imposing Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigènes (Practical and reasoned treatise on indigenous medicinal plants), Cazin is considered to be "the ancestor of the French school of phytotherapy". At the age of sixteen, he entered the Grande-Rue military hospital in Boulogne-sur-Mer as a surgical assistant, then became a military surgeon and later a naval doctor. There, he showed dedication during the cholera epidemic of 1832 but contracted the disease. He was therefore forced to return to the countryside, to his native village of Samer. In the countryside, he discovered a poor, sick population that could not access the same medicine as in the city. He then decided to try to offer them treatment within reach, using plants.
In 1847, the Royal Society of Medicine of Marseille opened a competition on the resources offered by the indigenous medicinal flora to country doctors. He won the first prize. His dissertation served as the basis for the Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigènes, the first edition of which was published in 1850, and a separate atlas of plants was also published in 1850.